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The PGCC Collection eBook: The Financier, by Theodore Dreiser#2 in our series by Theodore DreiserWorld eBook Library PGCC CollectionBringing the world's eBook Collection Togetherhttp://www.WorldLibrary.netProject Gutenberg Consortia Center is a member of theWorld eBook Library Consortia, http://WorldLibrary.net __________________________________________________ LimitationsBy accessing this file you agree to all the Terms andConditions, as stated here.This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no costand with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copyit, give it away or re-use it under the terms of theProject Gutenberg License included with this eBook oronline at www.gutenberg.netHere are 3 of the more major items to consider:1. The eBooks on the PG sites are NOT 100% public domain,some of them are copyrighted and used by permissionand thus you may charge for redistribution only viadirect permission from the copyright holders.2. Project Gutenberg is a registered trademark [TM].For any other purpose than to redistribute eBookscontaining the entire Project Gutenberg file freeof charge and with the headers intact, permissionis required.3. The public domain status is per U.S. copyright law.This eBook is from the Project Gutenberg ConsortiumCenter of the United States.The mission of the Project Gutenberg Consortia Centeris to provide a similar framework for the collection
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The Financierby Theodore DreiserChapter IThe Philadelphia into which Frank Algernon Cowperwood was bornwas a city of two hundred and fifty thousand and more. It wasset with handsome parks, notable buildings, and crowded withhistoric memories. Many of the things that we and he knew laterwere not then in existence--the telegraph, telephone, expresscompany, ocean steamer, city delivery of mails. There were nopostage-stamps or registered letters. The street car had notarrived. In its place were hosts of omnibuses, and for longertravel the slowly developing railroad system still largelyconnected by canals.Cowperwood's father was a bank clerk at the time of Frank's birth,but ten years later, when the boy was already beginning to turn avery sensible, vigorous eye on the world, Mr. Henry WorthingtonCowperwood, because of the death of the bank's president and theconsequent moving ahead of the other officers, fell heir to theplace vacated by the promoted teller, at the, to him, munificentsalary of thirty-five hundred dollars a year. At once he decided,as he told his wife joyously, to remove his family from 21Buttonwood Street to 124 New Market Street, a much betterneighborhood, where there was a nice brick house of three storiesin height as opposed to their present two-storied domicile. Therewas the probability that some day they would come into somethingeven better, but for the present this was sufficient. He wasexceedingly grateful.Henry Worthington Cowperwood was a man who believed only what hesaw and was content to be what he was--a banker, or a prospectiveone. He was at this time a significant figure--tall, lean,inquisitorial, clerkly--with nice, smooth, closely-cropped sidewhiskers coming to almost the lower lobes of his ears. His upperlip was smooth and curiously long, and he had a long, straightnose and a chin that tended to be pointed. His eyebrows werebushy, emphasizing vague, grayish-green eyes, and his hair wasshort and smooth and nicely parted. He wore a frock-coat always--it was quite the thing in financial circles in those days--and ahigh hat. And he kept his hands and nails immaculately clean.His manner might have been called severe, though really it wasmore cultivated than austere.Being ambitious to get ahead socially and financially, he wasvery careful of whom or with whom he talked. He was as much
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